yea...the s-05 looks like it may have picked somthing up. At this point, might as well let it ride. Since it's a wheat,maybe rack on to some fruit, and worst case, you get a sour out of the deal. I'm not a fan myself, but some people go nuts for them.
Yep.. My first batch is barely drinkable, not sure if its infection or a poor job making it.. But I am drinking it.
How long has it been in the bottle? If it's a dark beer or above 6% alcohol it might take months of conditioning before it's good and a year or more before it's great. Just some food for thought...
So checked my second batch today, smells like beer taste like beer. Has particles floating in brew though. No pic can't get one.
Is my beer infected with lactic bacteria? Found these floating around a few days ago. They look like flakes of peeled off skin floating on top of the beer.
it's about 2 weeks old or so, not quite 3 weeks yet. it's fermenting in a primary (1 gallon glass carboy).
After flipping through 90+ pages of this thread I have seen some funk that made me wish I had not looked. LOL....... But it is interesting to say the least. I watched a episode of brew tv a while back dedicated to open fermentation. Mike Dawson brewed a batch of beer and fermented in his brew kettle semi open with the lid cracked.One would think if you were going to pick up some funk a open fermentation would do it. His beer turned out great according to him. If you can make great beer without it being sealed...... sanitation has to be an issue for a lot of these infections. I was going to try that technique but I may hold off after reading this thread.
As I have you probably realized looking through this thread.. most of the "infections" fall into 5 categories.
1) Yeast rafts / CO2 and left over Krausen
2) Contamination in primary (From oils or other "junk" that got into the boil or fermenter
3) Contamination in secondary (from hops, beans, wood chips, etc..)
4) Lactic Bacteria infection
5) Unknown infection/crap
I would say
1) 65%
2) 10%
3) 20%
4) less than 5%
5) less than 5%
That does look odd.. what are the big yellow masses ?
If those are the grapefruit.. I think your OK.. as you said it looks oily which is probably more contamination than infection.
Doesn't look like an infection to me
libeerty said:Agree. Just some fermentation bubbles and yeast rafts.
i wonder if it is something to do with the wheat.
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